I'cc't lonti". 3 feet 6 inches beam, and aliout 2 feet 

 depth of side. The model is fitted with two sculls, 

 single tholes with a becket, and one pole. 

 Given by U. S. Bureau of Fi.sheries. 



WELL-SMACK SLOOP, 1894 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76268 



Sparrowhawk 



This model was made from a design prepared in 

 1893-94 by Captain J. \V. Collins for an improved 

 well smack for use in the shore fisheries of the Pacific 

 Coast. The purpose was to produce a swift and safe 

 sloop of moderate size to bring live fish to market 

 without the need of ice, which at the time was scarce 

 and expensive in the fishing areas where the sloop 

 was intended to be used. Such an improved smack, 

 it was believed, would also prove useful in southern 

 waters. In 1895 the sloop Sparrowhawk was built from 

 this design, but without the well, by Lawrence Jensen 

 at Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ballasted with iron 

 inside and built for fishing, her speed attracted such 

 attention that she was purchased and fitted as a yacht 

 with ballast keel and additional sail. The attempt to 

 introduce the well into small craft was not very suc- 

 cessful in spite of the practical advantages, and rela- 

 tively few American fishing boats, except in New- 

 England and on the Florida coast, have employed 

 this fitting since 1885. 



The model represents a keel sloop with strong and 

 graceful sheer, long, sharp entrance, stem straight 

 above the waterline and much curved below, the keel 

 and rabbet much rockered and the outside deadwood 

 quite deep, forefoot very shallow, raking post, high 

 and light counter ending in a small V-shaped transom, 

 and the run short but well formed. The greatest beam 

 is abaft midlength. The midsection shows a steeply 

 rising floor with slight hollow at the garboards, a very 

 slack and easy bilge, and a flaring topside. 



The well, of the usual truncated pyramid form, was 

 amidships and there was a raised cuddy deck forward 

 in the design (in the model the deck is flush), a com- 

 panionway slide-hatch was placed just forward of the 

 well hatch, then the well grating, hatch to hold, 

 binnacle, and, well aft, a steersman's cockpit, or oval 

 standing room. 



The boat was steei'ed with a tiller. The mainmast 

 stood about one-third the overall length from the 

 stem and the rig was that of a cutter but with fixed 

 bowsprit, following the then fashion in American keel 

 cutter yachts. 



Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot. The smack was 



34 feet 3 inches at gunwale (the design showed a log- 

 rail forward and 1-foot bulwarks aft), load waterline 

 was 28 feet 2;.) inches, beam 10 feet 9^^ inches, depth 

 6 feet, extreme draft 5 feet ]i inch, fish well at bot- 

 tom 8 feet long and 5 feet wide, well at deck 3 feet 

 long and 2 feet wide. Mast from deck to hounds was 

 22 feet 9 inches, masthead 4 feet 6 inches, topmast heel 

 to truck 22 feet, main boom 30 feet 6 inches, gaff 20 

 feet, and bowsprit outside face of stem 14 feet 6 inches. 



Sails carried were gaff-mainsail with foot laced to 

 iioom, jackyard gaff-topsail with headyard 23 feet 6 

 inches long and foot boom 16 feet 6 inches long, fore- 

 staysail, jib, and jib topsail. 



Smacks of this size would usually be manned by a 

 crew of two, and boats of this type and model would 

 ha\c been very profitable in many areas. 



Given bv U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



Gre.\t L.\kes Pound-Net Sharpie under sail, i8go. 

 (Smithsonian photo 447g3-g-) 



LAKE ERIE POUND-NET SHARPIE, about 1876 

 Rigged Model, usnm 26790 



Sharpies of this type were once used in the pound- 

 net fisheries on Lake Erie and later on Lake Huron. 

 The model, developed before 1870, was employed in 

 a variety of sizes and some variation in appearance. 

 The boats ranged from 20 to about 42 feet on the gun- 

 wale and had the usual flat bottom and athwartships 

 bottom-planking of the sharpie, with strong fore-and- 

 aft rocker, flaring straight sides, long sharp entrance, 



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